Strange Pilgrims: Twelve Stories
★★★★★Read Jan 1, 1992
This books was given to me about six months ago by a friend after I'd remarked that while I'd read lots of Borges, I'd read no Márquez at all. An embarassing omission. Strange Pilgrims is a collection of short stories written in the last 20 or so years. I enjoyed these stories well enough: some are downright beautiful. None of them really stick in my mind, though, which I regret. My favourite story of the bunch was Sleeping Beauty and the Airplane, a nice snapshot of love from a distance. I frequently feel like that.
Goodreads readers give it 4.03★, from 30,643 ratings. I gave it 2★, −2.0, where I'm usually −0.9: I liked it less than most.
Readers call it Short Stories, Magical Realism, Classics, Spanish Literature, Literature, Latin American, Latin American Literature, Nobel Prize.